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Eli Durst's images of activities that instruct and influence children--R.O.T.C., school plays, cheer practice--resist conformity.

His dramatic escape, in his own words.

Also: idiosyncratic bookstores, a retrospective for Vaginal Davis, the new Springsteen movie, and more.

In Yorgos Lanthimos's film, ripe with eco-paranoia, the actress and Jesse Plemons come to physical and psychological blows.

As the Trump Administration tries to rescue symbols of the Lost Cause, an exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, finds meaning in their desecration.

Scott Cooper's tightly focussed bio-pic, about the making of Bruce Springsteen's D.I.Y. album "Nebraska," leaves out the wide-ranging passion that went into the music.

In "Nexus," Puryear shows that he may be America's greatest living sculptor, a maverick who reshapes our sense of how art should look, behave, and be made.

In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization.

New Yorker writers recommend books--including a history of the term "gold-digger" and a roman à clef about an Amazon warehouse worker--about money.

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.